Disabled waiting for fair treatment

Published 7:00 pm, Monday, January 31, 2005

Housing Authority Executive Director Carolyn Sistrunk is eagerly following Connecticut's long path of abuse and neglect toward folks with disabilities.

With a federal class action suit against the state on its refusal to fund the long waiting list for support of people with disabilities in the legislature for approval, the Danbury Housing Authority now reneges on its promise for housing for these same people.

Stetson Place was only given land-use approval to be built because it did include housing for the disabled. Now the Housing Authority wants to change the zoning laws retroactively and say we did not really mean that Stetson Place had to house the disabled to get its zoning variances; we just wanted it built so we could profit from it.

Mayor Boughton is in the papers saying he wants to provide housing for the homeless. Where is he when the disabled need help getting their promised housing?

It was my impression that the reason the Housing Authority existed was to help provide housing for the disadvantaged. Are the disabled any less disadvantaged so that they should have their housing yanked from underneath them when they are all packed and their specially equipped homes ready for them?